Culture Crisis

Of course one of the categories we have been watching is the collapse of the U.S. culture.  Our forefathers warned us 200 years ago that when the majority of voters discover they can vote themselves healthy benefits from the public treasury....they will proceed to vote the whole country right into bankruptcy.

The whole nation has been talking about the health care crisis ever since Obama was elected and pushed through free health insurance in an attempt to "fix" the hopelessly broken system. 

I received this email that probably some of you also have recieved which is supposedly written by a doctor who works in the emergency room of his local hospital.  Whether it's written by an actual doctor really doesn't matter because as you read it you will understand that our health care crisis is really a culture crisis....and we all know that we are currently on an unsustainable path.

Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ring tone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"!
During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses.
Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me."

Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.

Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD